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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Lastly, Elihu reports it as a special favour of God to withdraw man from his purpose.
Lastly, Elihu reports it as a speciall favour of God to withdraw man from his purpose.
Whence note.
It is a great mercy to be hindered in sinful purposes and intendments.
It is a great mercy to be hinder'd in sinfull purposes and intendments.
Disappointments are acts of grace, when we are acting against grace; If God stop us from doing evil, not only by his word, but by blows, or by a hedge of thorns, yea if he stop us by a drawn sword, it is a great mercy. Though God throw us to the ground (as he did Saul, afterwards Paul, when he went with a bloody purpose to vex and persecute the Saints (Acts 9.) let us count our selves exalted, and rejoice in it more then in any worldly exaltation. 'Tis a rich mercy to be kept from executing an evil purpose, though by our own poverty and outward misery. The doing of that which is sinful, is worse then any thing that can be done to us, or endured by us, as a stop against sin. Sin